Vivent biosignals raises €7.5M including investments from agri investment fund, horticoop and Pymwymic.

Vivent Biosignals, the Swiss-based pioneer of “wearables for plants”, has announced new investment from Agri Investment Fund (AIF), Horticoop, Pymwymic and Swiss private investors. The funding will accelerate Vivent’s commercial scaling of its breakthrough plant biosignal monitoring technology, which is transforming crop management and sustainable food production.

“We are thrilled to welcome Agri Investment Fund as a new investor, joining Pymwymic and Horticoop,” said Carrol Plummer, Co-founder of Vivent Biosignals. “ This investment comes at a pivotal moment. In 2025, we successfully launched our live outdoor crop health platform, now monitoring more than 1,000 hectares across Europe. With Agri Investment Fund, we gain a partner deeply embedded in European agriculture and food value chains—exactly the kind of strategic alignment we need to accelerate our growth and deliver value at scale.”

Vivent ’s technology uses AI to interpret plants’ own biosignals, enabling growers to detect stress from pests, disease, drought and nutrient imbalances days, weeks or even months before visual symptoms appear. These “plant-first ” insights give farmers the ability to act early, improve yield stability, and use inputs more precisely. Vivent is the first company to commercialize real-time plant electrophysiology as a crop health diagnostic and prediction system—transforming the way growers understand and respond to what their plants need.

One of Vivent ’s satisfied clients, Tom Vlaemynck, Managing Director and CEO of TomatoMasters, comments “Vivent helps us improve fruit quality and reduce our waste percentage. From the first look at their model results we could already see that we needed to focus on changing different parameters than we expected.”

“Recent advances in AI allow us to interpret plants’ internal signal networks with a level of precision that was previously impossible,” said Dr. Nigel Wallbridge, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Vivent Biosignals. “By scaling in outdoor agriculture, we’ve built the world’s largest dataset of crop biosignals—unlocking insights that benefit individual growers, research partners, and policymakers. With our new investors, we are accelerating the global shift toward plant-driven, resource-efficient agriculture as well as tackling some of the critical blights that threaten global food production.”

Vivent’s platform helps growers improve yields, optimize input use, and enable more sustainable crop protection strategies. Already proven in greenhouses and indoor farms, the technology is increasingly deployed across field crops such as berries, potatoes, apples, and grapes—providing continuous, real-time plant health insights across a wide range of production environments in Europe and North America. In addition to supporting growers directly, Vivent partners with leading suppliers in crop protection, fertilization, irrigation, and horticultural lighting to evaluate how plants respond to interventions—live, in situ, and in real time. Plant breeders also rely on
Vivent signals to assess the resilience of new varieties, accelerating the development of hardier crops.

“We see enormous potential for Vivent ’s technology to improve both farmer profitability and environmental sustainability,” said Patrik Haesen, CEO of Agri Investment Fund. “By giving crops a voice, Vivent is enabling a new era of precise, plant-led decision-making in agriculture—and we are excited to support the company’s growth.”

About Vivent Biosignals

Vivent Biosignals, founded by serial entrepreneurs Carrol Plummer and Dr. Nigel Wallbridge, provides real-time crop health monitoring and actionable agronomic insights by decoding plants’ own electrical signals with advanced AI. Our team of plant scientists, data scientists, and commercial specialists works with controlled-environment growers, agricultural distributors, food processors, and crop protection companies across Europe to help farmers improve productivity sustainably.

For more information, visit https://vivent-biosignals.com/ 

About Agri Investment Fund

Agri Investment Fund (AIF) is an agri-food focused investor supporting companies that deliver high-impact innovation across the agricultural value chain, from farm productivity to sustainablefood systems. AIF backs technologies that help future-proof European agriculture and increase resilience for growers, processors and consumers.

For more information, visit https://aifund.be/en/

About Horticoop

Horticoop is a cooperative with an active membership base of professional growers in the horticultural sector. Horticoop actively invests in businesses that contribute to the horticultural industry. In doing so, the cooperative supports a sector that meets the needs of a growing population while at the same time minimizing its environmental impact. For comments please contact Hend van Ravestein at H.vanRavestein@Hortic

For more information, visit www.horticoop.com

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